Antique Cooking Charts

My mom asked me the other day to get a couple pictures for her blog. She wanted pictures of my Great-Grandmas Hoosier (Isn't it beautiful?) and the Cooking Chart inside the door. I have been wanting to share another chart that I got from my Grandma and thought this was a good opportunity to share them. So now that I have the pictures....I can!

Below is the photo of the Hoosier. I am using it in my new craft room for all the kids art supplies. I love it!

Here is the | Useful Information | (Cooking Chart) that was tacked inside the left door. It has a bunch of really great information that any woman would love to have.

This Chart below is a Microwave Time Chart that I got from my Grandma. She has a larger version. If I remember correctly, this chart was from back in the 70's. It also has a lot of very useful information. My Grandma didn't want to part with hers, understandably, but was happy to let me borrow it for a quick scan. Thank you Grandma. I now have a cool Retro Cooking Chart!

Please feel free to copy these cooking charts and use them as your own.

I would love to see your Cooking Charts. I am kinda starting a collection!

If you have any that you would like to share, can you please share a link or email them to trendytreehouse@me.com

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Egg Salad Sandwich

This is an amazing sandwich that I just actually made for lunch the other day with our left over easter eggs. Once I made it I knew I had to share it here. It was so delicious!

What you are going to need...

2 hard boiled eggs

1 1/2 tbsp. of mayo

Mustard to taste

Garlic Salt

Pepper (optional)

Provolone Cheese

Pecans

2 slices of Bread

First, mash up your eggs. Great term Mash! LOL Mix in your mayo and mustard. Also sprinkle in your garlic salt. To taste of course. You could also add pepper if you like. I don't care for it, so I left it out. Sprinkle in some chopped pecans. YUM! Now your ready to put it all together.

Get your two slices of bread. I used buttermilk bread this time but also love to use croissants and ciabatta rolls too! Don't add any extra mayo to the bread. Keep it dry. Add the egg mixture straight to the bread. Top with a slice of provolone cheese and top of bread. Enjoy!

This is an amazing sandwich! I want to make another one right now!

Hope you enjoy it!

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Creative Share | Features too!

Don't forget to grab one of our {BUTTONS}

I always look forward to this day of the week. It's fun to go through all the fabulous link ups.

So if you see that you have been featured, go by and grab a "Featured Button"

{Here are a few of my favorites that linked up last week}
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Shutter Love Tuesdays | Easter

We have been loving hosting {Shutter} Love every week and wanted to thank you all for participating each week. You have all made it so fun. We enjoy looking at each of your photos every week.

This weeks theme is | EASTER |

To see all the rules for this fun party, please go HERE.

Want to see all the PAST Shutter Love Winners? Check out our Shutter Love Winners | Directory in the Pages above. Don't forget to check out future Shutter Love Themes too!

Don't forget to leave a comment when you view a photo! Everyone Loves Feedback!

There is no longer a viewers favorite. We didn't have much voting and multiple winners because of it. So from now on, we will only be sharing the top 10 and and more of our favorites. Thanks for understanding!

AND COMMENT BELOW as much as you like.
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Tara's | EASTER | Photo

We had a great Easter with the kids this year. I had a hard time deciding what photo to share. We took so many! It was either, family photo, kids pics or the hunt. I went with the one of my daughter running to get her eggs. It is so great seeing their excitement and this photo, I thought, showed that!

Jamie's | EASTER | Photo

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Shutter Love WInners | Blue

Shutter Love Photo Winners | BLUE | - Blue has always been my favorite color. As a young girl, I would love laying back on the lawn and staring up at the sky. I especially enjoyed looking at all of your photos this week. So many beautiful BLUE photos. It was tough choosing winners! Here we go...

Our Top 10 Photo Winners
#1 goes to | Dandelion Wish

#2 | Ashley Sisk

#3 | Jennifer @ a Beautiful Life

#4 | Jill @ 4 Fab Franklins

#5 | The Photog Nazi

#6 | Hot Coffee Mama

#7 | It's the Simple Things for me Today!

#8 | CMK

#9 | Glenda

#10 | Candace

Viewers Favorite | Blue FishThis was one of my favorites too! Love those Blue fish!

A few more of our favorites | In No Particular Order

Thank you to everyone who entered last weeks theme | BLUE |If you see your photo above, please visit our BUTTONS page to grab one.
Get your photos ready for this weeks theme | EASTER | and remember to share so others can join in with their photos.

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Happy Easter

Happy Easter Everyone! Hope you're all enjoying a wonderful day with your families.

Usually I post Shutter Love winners today, but instead I will be sharing a Smilebox creation with you in honor of the holiday! I will post winners tomorrow. I know you won't mind! ;-)

Please enjoy this sweet creation from Smilebox of my kiddos coloring their Easter Eggs.
UPDATE....Another Smilebox from our day today! Enjoy!

This free digital scrapbook made with Smilebox

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Happy Easter!

He is RISEN!
Alleluia!

I pray that you have a blessed Easter, that you are able to spend time with your family, but most importantly that you are able to hear the GOOD NEWS of Christ's death and resurrection. He loves you so much that he stretched His arms and died on the cross just for you! If you were the only person on the earth He still would have gone through all that suffering, agony, separation from God JUST FOR YOU! You are LOVED! With an everlasting love!!! Praise be to God that Jesus was raised from the dead and that we worship the LIVING GOD!

So, you may or may not know that I am a photographer. As a photographer I try to get my clients to steer away from matchy matchy outfits (and no denim with white shirts...) and go with coordinating outfits, but as a mom, I LOVE matchy matchy outfits for my kiddos. But it's really hard to find matching outfits for a 4 year old girl, a 3 year old boy and a 6 month old girl. So, I get the honor of making the matching outfits (but usually only for big occasions or holidays).

Luckily after we moved I found some time to get this idea out of my head and into wearable clothing for the kids. They LOVE their outfits and it couldn't make me more happy. I dread the day that one of them tells me they don't want to wear something that I made for them! We had a little mini photo shoot yesterday so that I could document Easter and the cute outfits I made. I love it when something actually comes together (and on time is even better!).

Here are some of the photos from the photoshoot!

The headband for the girls came from a tutorial that Kelly at Sewing in No Mans Land wrote!

If you have any questions about anything I made feel free to leave a comment and then check back here for my response...or email me at
purejoycreative at gmail dot com

Happy Easter!!!

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